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                  <p class="p_Heading1"><span class="f_Heading1">Add a Diagram to a Package</span></p>



  
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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">A diagram is a representation of the components or elements of your model and, depending on the type of diagram, how those elements are connected or how they interact.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">When you first create a project, Enterprise Architect provides simple examples of diagrams appropriate to your selected model patterns, with annotations. You can edit these diagrams, but here we create an additional one.</span><br>
<span class="f_BodyText">Click on your new package and, in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Project Browser</span><span class="f_BodyText"> toolbar, click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">New Diagram</span><span class="f_BodyText"> icon <img src="newdiagramicon.png" width="24" height="26" border="0" alt="NewDiagramIcon">.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The </span><span class="f_UIControl">New Diagram</span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog displays.</span></p>
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<td width="952" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:952px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">When you create a package, if you leave the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Automatically add new diagram</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> option selected, the </span><span class="f_UIControl">New Diagram</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> dialog displays automatically.</span></p>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Click on a diagram category in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Select From</span><span class="f_BodyText"> panel, and a diagram type in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Diagram Types</span><span class="f_BodyText"> panel, then click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">OK</span><span class="f_BodyText"> button. Enterprise Architect adds a diagram object to the package, with the same name as the package. It also opens the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Diagram View</span><span class="f_BodyText"> for your diagram, in the center of the screen.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Add Elements to a Diagram and a Package</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Now <a href="add_an_element_to_a_diagram.htm">add some elements</a>.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Additional Information</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">For additional information on diagrams and adding them to a project, see </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="umldiagrams.htm">UML Diagrams</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> and </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="newdiagrams.htm">Add New Diagrams</a></span><span class="f_BodyText">.</span></p>




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